Traffic from Article Marketing

People are still heavily implementing this strategy today. There are tons of experts using this. I recommend you check out Rob Fore for this. He has tons of free trainings on this subject.

I never realized how powerful article marketing can until google deindexed one of my websites which I promoted mostly using ezinearticles and a few other important article directories.
Now all the traffic coming to this website is a result of good articles grabbed by people from article directories.
I would recommend articles to balance your link building strategy. Now, google places less importance on this type of links but you still get the benefit of content distribution. It's a slow but reliable method.

If you look for something fast I recommend articlemarketingautomation.com, it's a very fast article distribution service and you can automatically generate a spin of every article so you get unique versions for every place your article goes to.

Social media is weighing much on AM but it still has a great share in pumping free traffic to web pages.

Article marketing is a good way to bring in traffic to your site but I personally from my own experience, you need to write good quality articles and also it is a numbers game.

You can write 200 articles and maybe there is a chance that you may not get any traffic to what ever link your are trying to promote. Maybe article 201 may get you 3-10 clicks a day.

If you write 100's of articles, you might get 10-30 clicks per day.

1000's.....Is what you may need.

I personally like PAID advertising more then FREE because it gets you FAST results.

Hi Matthew - article marketing is a great way to drive traffic to your site, and it's how a large number of us, here, are making our livings ... but not so much "by SEO".

Exactly as Paul (who has been doing this for 5 times as long as me) explains above, the advantage of it is that it largely bypasses SEO.

The "key concept" is that article marketing isn't intrinsically an SEO-based method of attracting traffic: it's a traffic-generating method in its own right.

Very small numbers of articles can sometimes bring floods of highly targeted traffic. Whether or not that happens has little to do with "how many articles". It's about "how well syndicated" they are - or, in plain English, "how much targeted traffic gets to read them".

If it helps/interests you, my own everyday method of attracting traffic through article marketing is described in this post: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

And the whole subject of "how article directories work" is well covered in this little thread (see especially posts #2 and #6): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

Don't imagine that you need to write a large number of articles to attract the traffic, Matthew: that simply isn't true at all. What you have to do is write the right kind of articles (however few) and get them in front of the right kind of readers, and for the most part how you do that isn't about SEO at all.

Sorry, Tal - nothing personal at all, but this just isn't right. I know it's what some people may have found, but those are people who simply didn't understand how article marketing works. I'm not criticising them for that, in any way - in fact I used to be one of them, myself, until I learned better.

I think article marketing is still a great way to get traffic. There is more competiton these days but most still do not know what they are doing. I think article marketing will still be effective for years to come.

Article marketing definitely still works. I generally will only use it for linkbuilding nowadays though.

The old "bum marketing" with EZA doesn't really work half as well anymore. I remember it being a thoughtless process - ie. publish any old crap with a decent title, submit 10 a day and you're golden.

Now of course you need decent content, and a good linking strategy to multiple places in multiple formats to get near the same kind of traffic.

I tried article marketing for a little while, but never really made too much $ with it. All in all, I should have spent the time doing soomething else

Article marketing is very much alive and very effective, the problem is many have been taught wrong on what article marketing is. Look at some of the post above talking about mass submitting 100's of articles, amazing these people even have a business online.

Many teach article marketing as a way to get backlinks by mass submitting articles that are spun by some junk software and using some lame software to do the submissions. This is how NOT to do article marketing and it never was effective as many claim.

You need a strategic plan when doing article marketing just as you need a business plan before you start a business (many miss this step also). You need to create high quality content and base that plan around your high quality content. High quality means your articles must contain proper spelling and grammar, semantically related words, and read at a proper grade level that corresponds to your niche, according the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

Despite popular belief, article marketing was created to market your quality content and syndicate it to websites that can help you empower your website. This is a step that many miss because they was blinded by that all so mighty backlinks as they "think" they was getting.

Some seem to think the panda update targeted article marketing but myth's are a dime a dozen online and especially in the internet marketing arena. The panda had nothing to do with article marketing - It targeted content farms filled with junk articles (from that bum marketing junk) and littered with ads all over the place.

There are so many different levels to article marketing....it's like choosing between a steak at Ponderosa or Mortons.

I do think article marketing can still be effective but compared to what it used to be it's not nearly as powerful.

Make sure to include high PR places like Scribd instead of hundreds of article marketing farms.

Have it be a piece of your SEO pie, not the whole thing.

Its better to do Press Release, You are sure to get traffic from your articles in this way.

Article marketing is still relevant even after post-Panda. Although the strength weakened, it is still effective.

I really think that many people are starting to wake up to that fact that mass spamming article directories no longer works. Neither does spinning.

The way we do article marketing, is getting or paying for high quality articles 800 - 1000 words and then syndicating them on high traffic sites in that niche. The amount of traffic and targeted views you can get from this is increadible, if done correctly.

Get your mind out of the gutter, writing one half arsed article and spamming them to the top 10 directories is not really going to get you the results your are after. Think quality first, and then think targeted eyeballs. The more targeted the more chance you are going to have for getting subscribers and sales.

This is the proper way article marketing is done, it always has been, and you do not have to worry about SEO keywords, or google rankings at all. It is totally unrelated.

So again, think quality first, and getting targeted eyeballs. Even if your offers and optin pages are half decent you will see good results.

I love when these threads pop up because it gives me the opportunity to go and read some great reference material. I finally did read the cauliflower soup scenario in Alexa's thread, and I have to say it is mind blowing.

My problem is that I am already making money working as a writer myself. I am putting in the hours, writing for clients, and I don't write articles for my site or either or the two ebooks I have in mind. I now know how to do it, but I am struggling with finding the time. I guess I need better time management.

Thanks for all the help, though. It's awesome.

Lynda

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the responses, especially Alexa for pointing me at http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

As you may have gathered from my tone in the initial question, I was sceptical about how Article Marketing could ever realistically work or provide a worthwhile return on your efforts - the thought of writing hundreds of articles to get a few clicks seemed / seems insane.

I can now see how it works... ..and it's not about SEO

Thanks

Matthew

Article marketing is a way to drive traffic and also rank you in google for sure!

I've found Ezine to be really fussy these days, however still very effective at times. I usually see a jump in my keyword serps within about 5 days of publishing an article. Of course it depends on how good the competition is etc.
Still find it worth the bother though if I find a spare half hour.

Just to re-inforce that opinion - an example of this can be found here Niche Finder Review This jumped up 5 places to hit the No 1 spot for "niche finder review" after just one article on ezine.
OK, it may not stay there - especially after this but what the heck